Jammu and Kashmir will host the 2023 meetings of the G20, an influential group of the world’s 20 major economies.
- According to the Ministry of External Affairs, India will hold the G-20 presidency from December 1, 2022, and convene the first G20 leaders’ summit in 2023. J&K government has set up a five-member high-level committee for overall coordination of G20 meetings to be held in the Union Territory.
- Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal was appointed as India’s Sherpa for the G20 in September 2021.
- India’s representation at G20 summits has been led by Prime Minister Modi since 2014.
- The G20 countries include Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United States and the United Kingdom.
- This will be the first major international summit to be held in Jammu and Kashmir after the erstwhile state’s special status guaranteed under Article 370 of the Constitution was abrogated and it was bifurcated into two union territories on August 5, 2019.
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